

How to fix corrupted hard drive using CMD? The file or directory is corrupted and unreadable”. ▶The type of file system is raw, CHKDSK is not available for RAW drives. Or the files and folders become invisible and corrupt. ▶It takes a much longer time for accessing files and folders. ▶Clicking or grinding sound from hard drive - it is going to die soon, or won't boot already ▶ No bootable device found, computer cannot boot successfully. ▶Black screen appears after the system booting screen. When the hard drive gets corrupted, you will notice the following symptoms or error messages. ▸Improper human operations: sudden power failure, removed without safe removal, shut down system improperly… ▸Physical damage: short-circuit failure, damaged chip, corrupted header, dropped from high places, degradation of moving parts in the hard disk over time… ▸Logical damage: virus attack, bad sectors, unknown file system, disk is not formatted, raw file system, lost/corrupted partition table…

Why the hard drive gets corrupted or crashed? Below are some main causes. Else any brand HDD with higher capacity and cheaper price would do.Causes and symptoms of corrupted hard drive

if you intend to use it for 3 years more or less and upgrading to new laptop, then buy the cheaper Kingston. If you intend to keep the laptop longer, buy samsung brand. That way you can save time not to repair windows and get a new HDD or SSD. If for some reason you can boot into windows even in safe mode, the best bet is to run crystaldiskinfo and see if the disk is failing. If you did not pass the first repair stage, the subsequent repairs are more difficult and require running bootrec /fixboot commands and also sfc /scannow. Then hopefully you can boot into windows without issues. One way you can fix this is to boot into advanced options from windows and run chkdsk /f to fix disk errors. This message will only come out if windows did not boot successfully. "Undoing changes" means windows is undoing the corrections it did to the disk or file. This could be due to interruption like power failure or disk about to fail. "Repairing disk errors" means windows is repairing files that is not closed properly or data that was not allocated properly on disk.
